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Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts: Colonial Exploitation in the Congo (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781784786311)
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xThe definitive account of exploitation in the Congo, introduced by Adam Hochschild In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British entrepreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the murderous regime of King Leopold II, Leverhulme set up a private kingdom reliant on the horrific Belgian system of forced labour, a programme that reduced the population of Congo by half and accounted for more deaths than the Nazi Holocaust. In this definitive, meticulously researched history, Jules Marchal exposes the nature of forced labour under Lord Leverhulme's rule and the appalling conditions imposed upon the people of Congo. With an extensive introduction by Adam Hochschild, Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts is an important and urgently needed account of a laboratory of colonial exploitation.
Author: Jules Marchal
ISBN-10: 1784786314
ISBN-13: 9781784786311
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 01/31/2017
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d
Author: Jules Marchal
ISBN-10: 1784786314
ISBN-13: 9781784786311
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 01/31/2017
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d
By Jules Marchal
xA former diplomat in the Belgian Congo, Jules Marchal (1924-2004) spent twenty years researching forced labor. Adam Hochschild is the author of the award-winning King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains. He teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and writes for, among other journals, New York Review of Books, Harper's and The Nation.
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